New footage of haggard adults, skeletal minors, and lives crawling with misery shows routine Yemeni existence roughly two years into Saudi Arabia’s invasion of the impoverished country.

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The video, shot by the French news
agency AFP at Thawra Hospital in western al-Hudeidah Province on
Saturday, came less than a week after the UN relief aid chief warned
Yemen faced a "serious risk of famine.”

Speaking during a visit to
Yemen's port city of Aden on Tuesday, UN Under-Secretary General for
humanitarian affairs Stephen O’Brien said seven million people in the
country did not know where their next meal was coming from.

Of
that figure, almost 3.3 million, including 2.1 million children, are
suffering from acute malnourishment, he said. Nineteen million out of
the country’s 26-million-strong population are in pressing need of
humanitarian assistance, O’Brien added.

The Saudi military
launched its military campaign in support of Yemen's former government
and imposed an all-out naval blockade on the country. The civilian death
toll from the bombardments has exceeded 10,000.

The US and the UK
provide coordinates for bombing sorties and military advice as well as
the bulk of weapons in Saudi Arabia's ongoing campaign which has
seriously damaged Yemen's infrastructure.